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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 06, 1930
Page
4
A vintage ad extols Silvertown tires as the most dependable on the market with a broad guarantee backed by a large tire company. It touts rigorous tests showing long, trouble free miles and notes Goodrich tires with a water cure process and dealer service for extra life.
The Hamivota fair results show Samuel E Orr Crandall sweeping all prizes in Long Wool class with five firsts and four seconds. Other winners include W Holland and W Baxter in sheep events, JH Tolton Oak Lake taking all prizes in Yorkshire class, and E Downing collecting several sow and litter categories with Clark & Son also noted.
Robert Randolph Bruce, newly appointed Lieut Governor of British Columbia, rose from Scottish roots to Canada via mining ventures in Windermere Valley. He settled at Windermere, built a bungalow, cultivated a flower-filled garden, and supplied his miners with fresh vegetables to improve their diet. His mining work at Sitting Bull and Paradise led to the development of the Happy Valley and the Windermere community.
A fragmented 1930 entry lists participants including J D Mathison Ian G Brown Mre J D Mathison T Moir W Moir and J Tolton in a pig sweepstakes with noted bacon hogs. The text references McNaught special and promises continuation of the event details.
Former Hamiota residents gathered in Vancouver July 23 with about 130 attendees. The reunion in Stanley Park brought together prairie ex-residents from Hamiota Birtles and Edmonton with many familiar faces and a large potluck repast.
J J Arklie an optometrist will be at the Central Hotel Hamiota on Thursday August 1 for eye care and fittings. The passage notes Sunset City residents joining a growing Great Dominion colony and comments on a Home Industry Exhibition in Fort William Port Arthur with many entrances and diverse product displays.
W R Dick, provincial land settlement superintendent, said at a Calgary meeting that the Canada Colonization Association placed 427 families on 59 803 acres in 1925, highlighting Alberta as the leading western province in settlement efforts.
The first CP Radio concert broadcast airs February 21 over CKAC Montreal and KGW Toronto, repeated Fridays. The linked telegraphs enable technical improvements, with 10 to 11 pm concerts featuring light symphonic pieces, opera excerpts, sea chantey and French Canadian songs led by Rex Battle.
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